Suggestions for decomposition of the Voynichese characters

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I've blogged about the ciphers collected by Tranchedino. They make liberal use of pretty much every common Latin and Greek character and abbreviation symbol, in addition to astrological and mathematical symbols:

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This link explains how basic Latin shapes are altered slightly with an extra tick mark (in a very orderly way) to create new characters:

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The diplomatic ciphers collected by Tranchedino were substitution ciphers that required many characters (sometimes as many as 200 different glyphs per cipher set) because they were one-to-many ciphers (several glyphs could stand for the same character) that also included nulls plus a glossary of symbols for common words.